Stopper for bottles.



E. J. DEEGAN. STOPPER FOR BOTTLES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 28, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

' TTORNEY6 means whereby the stopper is eased in com- Patented. August 16, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD J. DEEGAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

STOPPER FOR BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,929, dated August 16, 1904. Application filed January 28, 1903. Serial No. 140,854. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. DEEGAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stoppers for Bottles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the aocompanyingdrawings, forming a part thereof, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to improvements in stoppers for bottles.

. Heretofore in those stoppers in which a rubber gasket was used to secure the joint between the bottle and the stopper it has been found that if much of the gasket was exposed to the contents of the bottle there would be divers liquids which would be injured by absorbing an unpleasant taste from the gasket. This invention has been devised to expose only so small a part of the gasket to the contents of the bottle as will make no appreciable difierence in the fluid contained in the bottle stopped by my stopper.

The invention has also for its object to provide novel means whereby the gasket may be steadily heldin operative position.

The invention has also divers other objects, which will be fully hereinafter set forth.

The nature of the invention consists in the novel means whereby with the aid of a gasket of soft material the joint between the cork and the top of the bottle-neck is made tight.

The invention also consists in the novel means whereby a minimum of the gasket is exposed to the action of the contents of the bottle.

The invention also consists in the novel ing out of the bottle.

The invention also consists in divers other novel features, which will be fully understood from the following general description and the annexed drawings and will be subsequently pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which are hereby made a part of this specification, Fig-' ure 1 is a vertical axial section of the neck and part of the body of a bottle embodying my invention, taken on the line a; .r of Fig. 3,

showing the bottle open. Fig. 2 is a section of the same, taken on the same plane and showing the bottle closed. Fig. 3 is also a vertical axial section of the same, taken on the line y 3 of Fig. 2 and also showing the bottle closed.

. In the said drawings, A designates the body of a bottle, and B the neck thereof. This neck has at its top a rounded edge, (designated by b.) On the outside it extends downward to the curve 5 and has the shoulder 6 Farther down this neck also has a shoulder 13 to accommodate the ring H.

C designates the stopper. This is pierced through with an opening, (designated by c.) This opening is of heart shape in cross-section.

c designates the neck of the stopper. This is substantially in the shape of the smaller end of an oval truncated. At the intersection of the shoulder of the head 0 and neck 0 of the stopper is an annular groove cut in the neck, which is designated by 0 The shoulder of the head is concaved by an annular depression 0 running around its entire circumference.

D designates a rubber gasket which on account of its resilience can be forced over the stopper-neck c and jumped into the groove 0 where it will be steadily held by its own resilience.

The usual shackle E, link F, lever G, and ring H are used in the common and wellknown way in connection with this stopper, as illustrated.

l/Vhile the bottle is open the gasket retains its normal form, resting against the plane surfaces of the shoulder of the stopper-head, as illustrated in Fig. l; but as soon as the bottle is closed by drawing the stopper-neck down into the bottle-neck, operating the shackle E, links F, and lever G in the commonand wellknown way on account of the shape of the closing surfaces on the top of the bottle-neck and the stopper-shoulder, the gasket will assume the form illustrated by d d d of Figs. 2 and 3. It will then be found that on account of the fact that the stopper-neck fills the whole space across the top of the interior of the bottle-neck no appreciable amount of the contents of the bottle can reach the gasket, and at the same time the bottle on account of the conformity of shape of the top of its neck and the stopper-shoulder having compressed the gasket into the form described will be air-tight and that the stopping mechanism will effectually resist any pressure from within the bottle; The bottle is opened and the cork removed by lifting the lever G in the common and well-known way; but it will be found that on account of the heart shape of the opening 0 of the stopper the shackle E can slip a little-to one side in the opening, and so ease the stopper as it passes the edge I) of the bottle-neck. 1 do not, however, confine myself strictly to the construction and arrangement hereinbefore set forth and described, as it is evident that under the scope and spirit of my invention I am entitled to divers slight changes without departing therefrom.

Having now described and ascertained what my invention is and how the same is constructed, made, and used, what I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a bottle-stopper, having ahead and neck, an annular groove, a concave annular depression and two plane annular surfaces on the shoulder of said head, and a gasket of soft resilient material, in said groove held therein by its own resilience, of a bottle-neck having an upper convex edge, arranged for and engaging said gasket, and

together with said stopper compressing said gasket, so that it will be bent between them as specified, and means for removably fastening said cork in said neck.

2. The combination with a bottle-stopper having a head, an oval-shaped neck, a concave annular depression and two plane annular surfaces on the shoulder of said head, and agasket of soft resilient material in said groove, of a bottle-neck having a convex rounded edge adapted to engage the said concave depression and a shoulder upon its upper edge conforming in shape to the shoulder of said head, and means for detachably closing said bottle-neck with said stopper, so that the compression of said stopper-shoulder and the top of said neck on said gasket will bend the same between them as specified, and render the joint between the cork and the bottle-neck air-tight, and at the same time the oval-shaped neck of the cork filling the whole opening in the top of the bottle-neck, will prevent any appreciable amount of the contents of the bottle from coming into contact with the said gasket.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention 1 have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 13th day of J anuary, 1903.

EDWARD J. DEEGAN. Vitnesses:

B. PATTERSON, S. M. STONE. 

